It’s all the time attention-grabbing to find what the blokes that make the brand new vehicles we drive select to drive on their days off.

Stellantis design boss Ralph Gilles, for example, has a shocking Alfa Romeo coupe, a Peugeot 205 GTi, and a Lancia Delta Integrale that frequently seem on his Instagram feed.

However it was one other automobile in a latest publish from Gilles that basically piqued our curiosity. It featured two photographs of a severely tough-looking second-generation AMC Javelin AMX, the customarily forgotten rival to the Ford Mustang, Chevrolet Camaro and Dodge Challenger that ran from 1971 to 1974.

“What our Director of Jeep design drives on the weekends!” Gilles wrote beneath the images, referring to Jeep’s Mark Allen.

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“Properly I suppose AMC owned Jeep again within the day…his AMX is an incredible one in every of a sort sketch on wheels! Properly performed,” he added.

And Gilles isn’t kidding. With the already curvy Javelin’s physique stuffed stuffed with fats, massive diameter five-spoke rims it appears like a type of early design sketches for a brand new automobile that’s skipped straight to the road, bypassing the half the place all of the perspective will get eliminated.

The automobile additionally seems to be fitted with the dual nostril hood scoop from the earlier technology 1970-model Javelin, and whereas Gilles doesn’t inform us something concerning the automobile, and Allen doesn’t seem like on Instagram or Twitter, the ‘401’ badge on the fender provides us a giant clue as to what may very well be beneath that scoop.

The 401-cubic inch (6.6-liter) V8 was the most important motor accessible in the second-gen Javelin. With 255 hp, the emissions-tamed 1973 model was good for mid-15-second quarter mile runs, although if Allen has spent as a lot time on the engine as he has on the way in which the AMX appears, this one may nicely be a lot faster.

This isn’t the primary time we’ve seen an unimaginable construct primarily based on the underappreciated Javelin. Again in 2018, Ringbrothers constructed an unimaginable Hellcat-powered Javelin as a promotional software for antifreeze maker Prestone.